Anti-rail-spreader.



UNlTED STATES PATENT 0mm LAURANCE DENSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

.ANTI-RAIL-SPREADE E.

No. 930,941..v

Specification or Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

Application fiIedDecember 16, 1908. Serial No. 87,888...

To all whom 'itmay Be it known that I,Jnssn lin'onancn Dan SQN, acitizen ofithe United :States, residin at St! Louis, State of Missouri,have invente new and useful rovement's-in 'inti-Rail Spreaders, otwhicthe 'follewinggisa specificationj I 4 1 This invention is an im rovedanti rail spreader-foruse on railroa s to prevent the rails fromspreading and which "consists in a tie composed ofa pair of membershaving means at theirouterends to engage the rails and having wedgeshoulders at their innerends, in combination with a tie device havingwedge 1 shoulders at its sides to engage those of the said sections tolock-said sections together and draw them toward each. other and furtherprovided with a lip or stop F at it s larger end to be. turned down whensaid tie is in place and bear against one side of said sections to.revent casual disengagementof said tie as ereinafter described andclaimed.

In the accom anying drawings:Fig1ire -1 is a topplan' a ortion of arailway pro' vided with anti rai s readers constructed in accordancewith my nvention; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on a largerscale},

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the anti rail .spreadersshowing the 'parts thereof disconnected.

My im roved anti rail spreader comprises a pair of ars or sections '1,2,-whichar'e du; hcates of 8&Cll0th6lyfilld036h of? which is t providedat. its outer-end with a broadened ead portion 3 and at itsinner-endwith :a wedge shoulder or'flange 4, said wedge shou'l' ders or flangesbeing here shown asformed by turning up and bending over the inner end,portions of said sections or bars. Eachhead portion 3 is formed withan;upt-urned-flange 5 to bear against the outer side o1 one of the railsand is further formed-with lip portion's 6 which after the outer flanges5 are ap lied to the rails are bent over the. inner ase flanges ofthefrails' and'against' ,the innersides of the webs thereof, asindicated inv Fig. 2, it being observed that thehealdportions 3 arewider than the bars .and thatthe said lips 6 as well as the flanges 5are formed integral with said head portions;-

In orderto lock he sections or bars l, '2, together, end for end, Iprovide .a shaped clip 7; which is'form'ed on asunder .sai'd wedge clipmaybe readily removed from -side'with inwardly extending flangesS .toengage and underlie the wedge flanges 4 ofthe .bars or sections 1., 2,the sides of. the. said'clip ;conv.er'ging in'one direction so-that thesaid clip-also constitutes a'wedge which in opactiontwith the wedgeflanges-4 of. the bars or sections 1 ,'2,'serves to firmly lock saidbars or sections 1, 2 together and r to draw them ;-towa'rd each otherwhenah-elip is forced or driven into place-., ,Themlipis provided at itslarge'r'end and integrally'with its 'uplper ortion Wltllfllli j9 wliiclwh en the'clip as een thus placedllon the neeting ends of the 'bars l,2,;is-zbentdownwardso as-to bear against onelsidebf-sdid barsasindicated in f1-,';"said lip thus fserving .to effectually prevent thesaid cllglbm becoming casually dislodged. It tunderstood, however, thatby first; bending tup theisaid lip Qthe' of-bars having means at theirouter ends to engage the railsand provided-at their inner ends withwedge flanges, in combination with awedge clip to coact with said wedgeflanges andplocksaid bars together at their inner ends.

2. An anti rail spreader comprising a pair of bars having means at theirouter ends to engagethe rails and provided at their inner ends withwedge flanges, in combination with a wedge clip to coact with said wedgeflanges and-lock said bars together at their inner ends, said wedge clipbeing rovided with locking means to engage said ars and prei vent casualdislodgment fof: said wedge clip. g3; anti rail spreader comprising apair of barsformed at their'i'nner ends with wedge flanges and at.theirouter ends with broadened head portions, said headjportion's hav-'.ing their outer ends upwardly and inwardly turned to form flanges tobear against the In testimony whereof I affix my signature outer sidesof the I'ELllS and formed on their '111 presence of two Witnesses.

inner sides with lip flanges to be bent against the inner sides of therails, in combination JESSE LAURANCE D E 5 with a Wedge clip to engageand coact with Witnesses:

the wedge flanges of said bars to lock the lat F. E. FICKERSON,

ter together. E. PAFFRATH.

